When do we start to question Hopkin?

It is a bottom of the league team.
I sat their yesterday, thinking about our attacking options -

No pace
No power
No width
No creativity
No target man

That's not Hopkin's fault.
Those are the card's he has been dealt.

 

Said exactly the same last week. I honestly don’t think he helps the situation. Six straight defeats makes questioning Hopkin inevitable and the right thing to do. I’d like to bet Parky would have got a couple of wins out of this lot.

 

I’m sure his job as a head coach is to develop and work with what he’s got.

 

He tries playing Payne and we lose by 4 because we're carrying him defensively.

If you're referring to Seedorf, neither Collins or Hopkin have trusted him for more than 10 minutes off the bench. I think that tells us everything.

Hopkin's big mistake was not getting a target man, the minute he walked through the door. We're crying out for a forward to win a few headers and that's been obvious since day one.

 

You cannot polish a turd. The recruitment has been dire for the last three windows.

 

What does a Coach/ Manager do if there is hardly a hope in hell of scoring? Correct, he makes the team bloody difficult to beat. DH hasn't managed to achieve any of that. In fact it's got worse as our shambolic defence just caves time after time.

If these so-called good quality professionals at our Club are as good as they are purported to be then why can't they successfully achieve the basics of organisation and defence?

Maybe DH isn't that great at getting his messages across?

Agree, we can't just keep on hiring and firing the way we do but another loss at Shots coupled with absolute nailed on defeat at Posh and in all honesty even DH himself must concede that he's flogging a dead horse!

 

Hopkin Out. Other managers have been able to turn failing teams around.

 

No it's not Hopkins fault as he didn't sign them
However he must have seen the team and its "non qualities"
prior to accepting the job ( bought into the dream) and thought he could mould them into a team
That's where if anywhere he is at fault I fail to believe he didn't watch at least
a couple of games before taking the position and remember no one would have been twisting his arm up his back I think he has quickly learnt the vast difference between English and Scottish football
Is he the man to get us out of this mess personally I think not without a radical top to bottom clear out and some much needed experience throughout the club even Pep would struggle

 

Your last paragraph is very tellling
He must have known that "route one" was an option to get us out of this mess and to do this you needs a big unit as a target man so why didn't he make it a priority or has he not been allowed to !!!
If he ever had or has any thoughts Kai could fulfil that role then we are well and truly down the pan

 

That is the question. Was he not allowed to or did he choose to go without.

Steve Davies was free and just what we needed.

If he chose to go without, then a big mistake IMO.

 

Maybe falling to the bottom of the league was inevitable regardless of who was the manager only a fool would sack Hopkins

 

You’re Leeds

 

Either way be it Hopkin or the club
It's massively short sighted and will prove a big part of our downfall

 

This thread basically explains how difficult Hopkin's job is.

No two posters seem to come even close to agreeing on who or how we should be playing.

It must be hard getting a bag of spanners to function like a well-oiled machine.

 

Play wingers and your more open , it’s not rocket science really Pompey are top.another 3 or 4 nil defeat wouldnt help would it

 

He's unsackable. It would just make the owners look even more clueless than they already do.

 

Good god fordy here you go again. I shouldn't be surprised as you've wanted every manager/coach that ever was sacked. You're posts are akin to you having your car spluttering with no acceleration and you taking it in to the garage and asking for the brake pads to be replaced.

Hopkin is 100 times better than Collins and he is definitely the man for us. The reason is very simple. He has managed to do something that a succession of managers/coaches have failed to do including Mr Championship manager himself. Even Parky realised he wouldn't be able to achieve it and was away before trying. Hopkin has demanded and got autonomy back. Let's not kid ourselves the last 12 months has set us back years and years and things may well get worse before they get better. The first shoots of recovery can now be seen, however, under Hopkin and he should be left to get on with the job.